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Hiring a full-time employee is tricky. Lucky for you, there is power in the crowd.One day, I was on stage giving a speech, when I spotted a young woman in the back of the room with only one leg and a pair of crutches. As I was speaking, she got up to get a glass of...
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New research shows basketball coaches–and managers–have a bias for generalists to the detriment of their teams.People, according to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin’s famous essay, can be divided into either foxes, who know many things, and hedgehogs, who...
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Innovation dies on the vine unless somebody make a human-to-human connection.Last week’s New Yorker magazine includes an article by Atul Gawande describing how innovation spreads. While we are accustomed to think of technology as “changing the...
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By the time most entrepreneurs think about so-called founder economics, it’s much too late.Writing as The Deal Professor for The New York Times, Steven Davidoff has been examining the many cases in which a venture backed company is “successfully” sold, yet the...
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A California company asked its workers this question and their answer prompted a green investment that’s paying both financial and cultural dividends.Sure, you could call them hippies. The 120 bakers, buyers, and executives who run Alvarado Street Bakery —...
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Any of these mistakes will kill a deal. And they’re easy to avoid.According to the Kauffman Foundation, women-founded businesses account for four to nine percent of venture capital investments. Guys get the rest.The gender gap is startling, but there’s actually...
